Deploy and upgrade to Office 2003

[ED person]

All computers currently have office 2000 and Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 was
installed from the Office 2003 cdrom (copied to network share and installed
from there). Office 2000 was installed thru an admin install (the GPOhas
been deleted).

I want to upgrade everyone to full version/features of 2003 and get rid of
O2000 using a GPO.

So far I have created an admin install point and tried rolling this out on
some test computers, but the upgrade doesn't seem to take place. The setup
just disappears after a few seconds. I created an mst file using CIW and
selected to have everything installed.

I have done this before (with O97 to O2000), but never when having two
versions to deal with. Any suggestions?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ed,

The Custom Installation Wizard (CIW) can handle a new
install of Office 2003. From your description you did
a customized install already (installed only Outlook 2003)
from an Office CD rather than from an Outlook standalone CD?

If Microsoft Office 2003 is already listed in Add/Remove
Programs in the Windows control panel then you can use
the MS Office Custom Maintenance Wizard (CMW) to make changes
such as install Word, Excel, etc) from the Offic Admin point
but you won't be able to use an additional MST.

Take a look at the information in the Office 2003 Resource
Kit on bringing an instatllation into 'managed state' so
you can use the GPO approach. You may want to test removing
Outlook 2003/Office 2003 then readding the entire suite to
upgrade, or you can use the utilities in the resource kit
to separately remove the older apps then move in the 2003
editions. http://microsoft.com/office/ork

=======
All computers currently have office 2000 and Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 was
installed from the Office 2003 cdrom (copied to network share and installed
from there). Office 2000 was installed thru an admin install (the GPOhas
been deleted).

I want to upgrade everyone to full version/features of 2003 and get rid of
O2000 using a GPO.

So far I have created an admin install point and tried rolling this out on
some test computers, but the upgrade doesn't seem to take place. The setup
just disappears after a few seconds. I created an mst file using CIW and
selected to have everything installed.

I have done this before (with O97 to O2000), but never when having two
versions to deal with. Any suggestions? >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ed,

The Custom Installation Wizard (CIW) can handle a new
install of Office 2003. From your description you did
a customized install already (installed only Outlook 2003)
from an Office CD rather than from an Outlook standalone CD?

If Microsoft Office 2003 is already listed in Add/Remove
Programs in the Windows control panel then you can use
the MS Office Custom Maintenance Wizard (CMW) to make changes
such as install Word, Excel, etc) from the Offic Admin point
but you won't be able to use an additional MST.

Take a look at the information in the Office 2003 Resource
Kit on bringing an instatllation into 'managed state' so
you can use the GPO approach. You may want to test removing
Outlook 2003/Office 2003 then readding the entire suite to
upgrade, or you can use the utilities in the resource kit
to separately remove the older apps then move in the 2003
editions. http://microsoft.com/office/ork

=======
All computers currently have office 2000 and Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 was
installed from the Office 2003 cdrom (copied to network share and installed
from there). Office 2000 was installed thru an admin install (the GPOhas
been deleted).

I want to upgrade everyone to full version/features of 2003 and get rid of
O2000 using a GPO.

So far I have created an admin install point and tried rolling this out on
some test computers, but the upgrade doesn't seem to take place. The setup
just disappears after a few seconds. I created an mst file using CIW and
selected to have everything installed.

I have done this before (with O97 to O2000), but never when having two
versions to deal with. Any suggestions? >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ed,

The Custom Installation Wizard (CIW) can handle a new
install of Office 2003. From your description you did
a customized install already (installed only Outlook 2003)
from an Office CD rather than from an Outlook standalone CD?

If Microsoft Office 2003 is already listed in Add/Remove
Programs in the Windows control panel then you can use
the MS Office Custom Maintenance Wizard (CMW) to make changes
such as install Word, Excel, etc) from the Offic Admin point
but you won't be able to use an additional MST.

Take a look at the information in the Office 2003 Resource
Kit on bringing an instatllation into 'managed state' so
you can use the GPO approach. You may want to test removing
Outlook 2003/Office 2003 then readding the entire suite to
upgrade, or you can use the utilities in the resource kit
to separately remove the older apps then move in the 2003
editions. http://microsoft.com/office/ork

=======
All computers currently have office 2000 and Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 was
installed from the Office 2003 cdrom (copied to network share and installed
from there). Office 2000 was installed thru an admin install (the GPOhas
been deleted).

I want to upgrade everyone to full version/features of 2003 and get rid of
O2000 using a GPO.

So far I have created an admin install point and tried rolling this out on
some test computers, but the upgrade doesn't seem to take place. The setup
just disappears after a few seconds. I created an mst file using CIW and
selected to have everything installed.

I have done this before (with O97 to O2000), but never when having two
versions to deal with. Any suggestions? >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ed,

The Custom Installation Wizard (CIW) can handle a new
install of Office 2003. From your description you did
a customized install already (installed only Outlook 2003)
from an Office CD rather than from an Outlook standalone CD?

If Microsoft Office 2003 is already listed in Add/Remove
Programs in the Windows control panel then you can use
the MS Office Custom Maintenance Wizard (CMW) to make changes
such as install Word, Excel, etc) from the Offic Admin point
but you won't be able to use an additional MST.

Take a look at the information in the Office 2003 Resource
Kit on bringing an instatllation into 'managed state' so
you can use the GPO approach. You may want to test removing
Outlook 2003/Office 2003 then readding the entire suite to
upgrade, or you can use the utilities in the resource kit
to separately remove the older apps then move in the 2003
editions. http://microsoft.com/office/ork

=======
All computers currently have office 2000 and Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 was
installed from the Office 2003 cdrom (copied to network share and installed
from there). Office 2000 was installed thru an admin install (the GPOhas
been deleted).

I want to upgrade everyone to full version/features of 2003 and get rid of
O2000 using a GPO.

So far I have created an admin install point and tried rolling this out on
some test computers, but the upgrade doesn't seem to take place. The setup
just disappears after a few seconds. I created an mst file using CIW and
selected to have everything installed.

I have done this before (with O97 to O2000), but never when having two
versions to deal with. Any suggestions? >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ed,

The Custom Installation Wizard (CIW) can handle a new
install of Office 2003. From your description you did
a customized install already (installed only Outlook 2003)
from an Office CD rather than from an Outlook standalone CD?

If Microsoft Office 2003 is already listed in Add/Remove
Programs in the Windows control panel then you can use
the MS Office Custom Maintenance Wizard (CMW) to make changes
such as install Word, Excel, etc) from the Offic Admin point
but you won't be able to use an additional MST.

Take a look at the information in the Office 2003 Resource
Kit on bringing an instatllation into 'managed state' so
you can use the GPO approach. You may want to test removing
Outlook 2003/Office 2003 then readding the entire suite to
upgrade, or you can use the utilities in the resource kit
to separately remove the older apps then move in the 2003
editions. http://microsoft.com/office/ork

=======
All computers currently have office 2000 and Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 was
installed from the Office 2003 cdrom (copied to network share and installed
from there). Office 2000 was installed thru an admin install (the GPOhas
been deleted).

I want to upgrade everyone to full version/features of 2003 and get rid of
O2000 using a GPO.

So far I have created an admin install point and tried rolling this out on
some test computers, but the upgrade doesn't seem to take place. The setup
just disappears after a few seconds. I created an mst file using CIW and
selected to have everything installed.

I have done this before (with O97 to O2000), but never when having two
versions to deal with. Any suggestions? >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ed,

The Custom Installation Wizard (CIW) can handle a new
install of Office 2003. From your description you did
a customized install already (installed only Outlook 2003)
from an Office CD rather than from an Outlook standalone CD?

If Microsoft Office 2003 is already listed in Add/Remove
Programs in the Windows control panel then you can use
the MS Office Custom Maintenance Wizard (CMW) to make changes
such as install Word, Excel, etc) from the Offic Admin point
but you won't be able to use an additional MST.

Take a look at the information in the Office 2003 Resource
Kit on bringing an instatllation into 'managed state' so
you can use the GPO approach. You may want to test removing
Outlook 2003/Office 2003 then readding the entire suite to
upgrade, or you can use the utilities in the resource kit
to separately remove the older apps then move in the 2003
editions. http://microsoft.com/office/ork

=======
All computers currently have office 2000 and Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 was
installed from the Office 2003 cdrom (copied to network share and installed
from there). Office 2000 was installed thru an admin install (the GPOhas
been deleted).

I want to upgrade everyone to full version/features of 2003 and get rid of
O2000 using a GPO.

So far I have created an admin install point and tried rolling this out on
some test computers, but the upgrade doesn't seem to take place. The setup
just disappears after a few seconds. I created an mst file using CIW and
selected to have everything installed.

I have done this before (with O97 to O2000), but never when having two
versions to deal with. Any suggestions? >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ed,

The Custom Installation Wizard (CIW) can handle a new
install of Office 2003. From your description you did
a customized install already (installed only Outlook 2003)
from an Office CD rather than from an Outlook standalone CD?

If Microsoft Office 2003 is already listed in Add/Remove
Programs in the Windows control panel then you can use
the MS Office Custom Maintenance Wizard (CMW) to make changes
such as install Word, Excel, etc) from the Offic Admin point
but you won't be able to use an additional MST.

Take a look at the information in the Office 2003 Resource
Kit on bringing an instatllation into 'managed state' so
you can use the GPO approach. You may want to test removing
Outlook 2003/Office 2003 then readding the entire suite to
upgrade, or you can use the utilities in the resource kit
to separately remove the older apps then move in the 2003
editions. http://microsoft.com/office/ork

=======
All computers currently have office 2000 and Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 was
installed from the Office 2003 cdrom (copied to network share and installed
from there). Office 2000 was installed thru an admin install (the GPOhas
been deleted).

I want to upgrade everyone to full version/features of 2003 and get rid of
O2000 using a GPO.

So far I have created an admin install point and tried rolling this out on
some test computers, but the upgrade doesn't seem to take place. The setup
just disappears after a few seconds. I created an mst file using CIW and
selected to have everything installed.

I have done this before (with O97 to O2000), but never when having two
versions to deal with. Any suggestions? >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ed,

The Custom Installation Wizard (CIW) can handle a new
install of Office 2003. From your description you did
a customized install already (installed only Outlook 2003)
from an Office CD rather than from an Outlook standalone CD?

If Microsoft Office 2003 is already listed in Add/Remove
Programs in the Windows control panel then you can use
the MS Office Custom Maintenance Wizard (CMW) to make changes
such as install Word, Excel, etc) from the Offic Admin point
but you won't be able to use an additional MST.

Take a look at the information in the Office 2003 Resource
Kit on bringing an instatllation into 'managed state' so
you can use the GPO approach. You may want to test removing
Outlook 2003/Office 2003 then readding the entire suite to
upgrade, or you can use the utilities in the resource kit
to separately remove the older apps then move in the 2003
editions. http://microsoft.com/office/ork

=======
All computers currently have office 2000 and Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 was
installed from the Office 2003 cdrom (copied to network share and installed
from there). Office 2000 was installed thru an admin install (the GPOhas
been deleted).

I want to upgrade everyone to full version/features of 2003 and get rid of
O2000 using a GPO.

So far I have created an admin install point and tried rolling this out on
some test computers, but the upgrade doesn't seem to take place. The setup
just disappears after a few seconds. I created an mst file using CIW and
selected to have everything installed.

I have done this before (with O97 to O2000), but never when having two
versions to deal with. Any suggestions? >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ed,

The Custom Installation Wizard (CIW) can handle a new
install of Office 2003. From your description you did
a customized install already (installed only Outlook 2003)
from an Office CD rather than from an Outlook standalone CD?

If Microsoft Office 2003 is already listed in Add/Remove
Programs in the Windows control panel then you can use
the MS Office Custom Maintenance Wizard (CMW) to make changes
such as install Word, Excel, etc) from the Offic Admin point
but you won't be able to use an additional MST.

Take a look at the information in the Office 2003 Resource
Kit on bringing an instatllation into 'managed state' so
you can use the GPO approach. You may want to test removing
Outlook 2003/Office 2003 then readding the entire suite to
upgrade, or you can use the utilities in the resource kit
to separately remove the older apps then move in the 2003
editions. http://microsoft.com/office/ork

=======
All computers currently have office 2000 and Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 was
installed from the Office 2003 cdrom (copied to network share and installed
from there). Office 2000 was installed thru an admin install (the GPOhas
been deleted).

I want to upgrade everyone to full version/features of 2003 and get rid of
O2000 using a GPO.

So far I have created an admin install point and tried rolling this out on
some test computers, but the upgrade doesn't seem to take place. The setup
just disappears after a few seconds. I created an mst file using CIW and
selected to have everything installed.

I have done this before (with O97 to O2000), but never when having two
versions to deal with. Any suggestions? >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[ED person]

Thanks Bob, I was getting very confused and this helps a lot. I used the CMW
to make changes and Office 2003 installed and didn't screw up my Outlook
config. However, Office 2000 remained.

I guess I need to run the removal wizard first? Can I have this done
automatically, like thru a GPO?

 

[ED person]

Thanks Bob, I was getting very confused and this helps a lot. I used the CMW
to make changes and Office 2003 installed and didn't screw up my Outlook
config. However, Office 2000 remained.

I guess I need to run the removal wizard first? Can I have this done
automatically, like thru a GPO?

 

[ED person]

Thanks Bob, I was getting very confused and this helps a lot. I used the CMW
to make changes and Office 2003 installed and didn't screw up my Outlook
config. However, Office 2000 remained.

I guess I need to run the removal wizard first? Can I have this done
automatically, like thru a GPO?

 

[ED person]

Thanks Bob, I was getting very confused and this helps a lot. I used the CMW
to make changes and Office 2003 installed and didn't screw up my Outlook
config. However, Office 2000 remained.

I guess I need to run the removal wizard first? Can I have this done
automatically, like thru a GPO?

 

[ED person]

Thanks Bob, I was getting very confused and this helps a lot. I used the CMW
to make changes and Office 2003 installed and didn't screw up my Outlook
config. However, Office 2000 remained.

I guess I need to run the removal wizard first? Can I have this done
automatically, like thru a GPO?

 

[ED person]

Thanks Bob, I was getting very confused and this helps a lot. I used the CMW
to make changes and Office 2003 installed and didn't screw up my Outlook
config. However, Office 2000 remained.

I guess I need to run the removal wizard first? Can I have this done
automatically, like thru a GPO?

 

[ED person]

Thanks Bob, I was getting very confused and this helps a lot. I used the CMW
to make changes and Office 2003 installed and didn't screw up my Outlook
config. However, Office 2000 remained.

I guess I need to run the removal wizard first? Can I have this done
automatically, like thru a GPO?

 

[ED person]

Thanks Bob, I was getting very confused and this helps a lot. I used the CMW
to make changes and Office 2003 installed and didn't screw up my Outlook
config. However, Office 2000 remained.

I guess I need to run the removal wizard first? Can I have this done
automatically, like thru a GPO?

 

[ED person]

Thanks Bob, I was getting very confused and this helps a lot. I used the CMW
to make changes and Office 2003 installed and didn't screw up my Outlook
config. However, Office 2000 remained.

I guess I need to run the removal wizard first? Can I have this done
automatically, like thru a GPO?